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2023 United Cup
The 2023 United Cup tennis event was won by the United States, defeating Italy in the finals, 4–0. The United States swept Poland in the semifinals while Italy lost one match in their defeat of Greece. This was the first edition of the United Cup, an international outdoor hard court mixed-gender team tennis tournament held by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) and the Women's Tennis Association (WTA). Serving as the opener for the 2023 ATP Tour and the 2023 WTA Tour, it was held from 29 December 2022 to 8 January 2023 at three venues in the Australian cities of Brisbane, Perth, and Sydney. It was also the first mixed-gender team event to offer both ATP rankings and WTA rankings points to its players: a player was able to win a maximum of 500 points. Finals Format Each city hosted two groups of three countries in a round robin format in the first week of the tournament. The round-robin format consisted of two men's and two women's singles matches, and one mixed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United Cup
The United Cup is an international hard court tennis tournament featuring mixed-gender teams from 18 countries. The first event was held in December 2022 through January 2023. The tournament is played across three Australian cities over 11 days in the leadup to the Australian Open. It is also the first mixed-gender team event to offer both ATP rankings and WTA rankings points to its players: a player will be able to win a maximum of 500 points. History On 7 August 2022, Tennis Australia announced that the ATP Cup, which was an international outdoor hard court men's team tournament played in the Australian summer, would be shut down and replaced by a mixed-gender event from 2023. Thus, the first edition of the United Cup directly replaced the ATP Cup (2020–2022) on the ATP Tour calendar. Tournament Format Every tie in the tournament consists of 2 men's singles matches, 2 women's singles matches, and a mixed doubles match. Each tie is split into two sessions played in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2023 WTA Tour
The 2023 WTA Tour (branded as the 2023 Hologic WTA Tour for sponsorship reasons) is the global elite women's professional tennis circuit organized by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for the 2023 tennis season. The 2023 WTA Tour calendar comprises the Grand Slam tournaments (supervised by the International Tennis Federation (ITF)), the WTA 1000 tournaments, the WTA 500 tournaments, the WTA 250 tournaments, the Billie Jean King Cup (organized by the ITF), and the year-end championships (the WTA Finals and the WTA Elite Trophy). Schedule This is the complete schedule of events on the 2023 calendar. ;Key January February March April May June July August November Statistical information These tables present the number of singles (S), doubles (D), and mixed doubles (X) titles won by each player and each nation during the season, within all the tournament categories of the 2022 WTA Tour: the Grand Slam tournaments, the year-end championshi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kamil Majchrzak
Kamil Majchrzak (; born 13 January 1996) is a Polish professional tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 75 achieved on 28 February 2022 and a career high ATP doubles ranking of World No. 241 achieved on 8 August 2016. He is currently the No. 2 Polish singles player. Junior career Partnered with Martin Redlicki, Majchrzak won the 2013 US Open boys' doubles title by defeating Quentin Halys and Frederico Ferreira Silva in the final. Professional career 2019: Grand Slam debut and first two wins, Top 100 During the 2019 Australian Open, Majchrzak advanced through the qualifying to reach the 1st round. He won the first two sets against top-10 player Kei Nishikori, but then was forced to retire due to an injury. In March 2019 Majchrzak celebrated his maiden Challenger triumph at the 2019 Open Harmonie mutuelle in St. Brieuc, France. Two months later he advanced to the 2019 Prosperita Open final with wins over Riccardio Bonadio, Zsombor Piros, No. 5 s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diego Schwartzman
Diego Sebastián Schwartzman (, ; born 16 August 1992) is an Argentine professional tennis player. He has won four ATP singles titles and reached his career-high singles ranking of world 8 in October 2020. As a clay court specialist, his best results have been on this surface. He is noted for his high-quality return game.Craig O'Shannessy (18 August 2017)"How Schwartzman Became The Return Giant In 2017," ATP World Tour. When he reached the quarterfinals of the 2017 US Open, the Schwartzman was the shortest Grand Slam quarterfinalist since the equally tall Jaime Yzaga at the 1994 US Open. Schwartzman said: "It’s not just for the big guys here."Ben Rothenberg (3 September 2017)"Diego Schwartzman Reaches U.S. Open Quarterfinal by Beating No. 16 Seed,"''The New York Times''. Schwartzman reached his first Masters final at the 2020 Italian Open, defeating defending champion and world No. 2, Rafael Nadal, in straight sets, and Denis Shapovalov along the way. He lost to No ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nick Kyrgios
Nicholas Hilmy Kyrgios ( ; born 27 April 1995) is an Australian professional tennis player. In singles, Kyrgios' career-high Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP singles ranking of world No. 13 was achieved on 24 October 2016. He has won seven ATP Tour singles titles, including the 2019 Citi Open – Men's singles, 2019 and 2022 Citi Open, 2022 Washington Open, and reached eleven finals, most notably a Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, major final at the 2022 Wimbledon Championships – Men's singles, 2022 Wimbledon Championships, and a ATP Tour Masters 1000, Masters 1000 final at the 2017 Western & Southern Open – Men's singles, 2017 Cincinnati Masters. In doubles, during his professional career, Kyrgios has a career-high ranking of world No. 11, achieved on 7 November 2022, winning a major doubles title at the 2022 Australian Open – Men's doubles, 2022 Australian Open and reaching the semifinals of the 2022 Miami Open – Men's doubles, Miami Open, both times partnering T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ken Rosewall Arena
The Sydney Olympic Park Tennis Centre is a tennis and multi-purpose sports facility located within the Olympic Park in Parramatta, near Sydney, Australia. The centre was built in 1999 and hosted the tennis events for the 2000 Summer Olympics. The venue hosted the Sydney International tournament from 2000 to 2019 and has hosted the ATP Cup since 2020. The main stadium in the centre is the Ken Rosewall Arena, which has a seating capacity of 10,500, and is capable of hosting multiple sports, including tennis and netball. Facilities In December 2008, the centre court was renamed Ken Rosewall Arena, named in honour of the Sydney-born tennis player and multiple Grand Slam winner Ken Rosewall. The stadium holds 10,500 people. There are also two other show courts in the precinct seating 4,000 and 2,000 spectators respectively, as well as ten other match courts and six practice courts. Refurbishment In January 2019, the New South Wales Government announced a $50.5 million upgrade of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sydney International Tennis WTA Premier (46190445154)
Sydney ( ) is the capital city of the state of New South Wales, and the most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Sydney Harbour and extends about towards the Blue Mountains to the west, Hawkesbury to the north, the Royal National Park to the south and Macarthur to the south-west. Sydney is made up of 658 suburbs, spread across 33 local government areas. Residents of the city are known as "Sydneysiders". The 2021 census recorded the population of Greater Sydney as 5,231,150, meaning the city is home to approximately 66% of the state's population. Estimated resident population, 30 June 2017. Nicknames of the city include the 'Emerald City' and the 'Harbour City'. Aboriginal Australians have inhabited the Greater Sydney region for at least 30,000 years, and Aboriginal engravings and cultural sites are common throughout Greater Sydney. The traditional custodians of the land on which modern Sydney stands are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RAC Arena
Perth Arena (known Naming rights, commercially as ) is an entertainment and sporting arena in the city centre of Perth, Western Australia, used mostly for basketball matches. It is located on Wellington Street, Perth, Wellington Street near the site of the former Perth Entertainment Centre, and was officially opened on 10 November 2012. Perth Arena is the first stage of the Perth City Link, a major urban renewal and redevelopment project which involves the sinking of the Fremantle railway line to link the Perth central business district directly with Northbridge, Western Australia, Northbridge. About The arena was jointly designed by architectural firms ARM Architecture (Ashton Raggatt McDougall), Ashton Raggatt McDougall and Cameron Chisholm Nicol. With its design based on the Eternity puzzle, the venue holds up to 13,910 spectators for tennis events, 14,846 for basketball (the arena's capacity is capped at 13,000 for National Basketball League (Australasia), National Basketba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RAC Arena, October 2018
RAC or Rac may refer to: Organizations * Radio Amateurs of Canada * RATCH-Australia Corporation, electricity generator * Refugee Action Collective (Victoria), Melbourne, Australia * Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, US * Rent-A-Center, US company * Riverside Arts Council, California, USA * Royal African Company, trading slaves and commodities * Royal Automobile Club (other), several motoring organisations ** RAC Limited, a British motorists' services company ** RAC Foundation, a British motoring advocacy group * Ryukyu Air Commuter, an affiliate of Japan Airlines Military * Royal Armoured Corps of the British Army * Romanian Air Corps, the air arm of the Romanian Army in WWI Sport * RAC Arena (Perth) * Retriever Activities Center, multi-purpose arena, Catonsville, Maryland, US * Rutgers Athletic Center, multi-purpose arena, Piscataway, New Jersey, US * Racing Athletic Club Casablanca, Morocco Music * RAC 1, a radio station in Catalonia, Spain * Recor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pat Rafter Arena
Queensland Tennis Centre, known during its development as the Tennyson Tennis Centre, is a tennis venue in Tennyson, Queensland, Tennyson, Brisbane, Australia. It is an Australian dollar, A$82 million tennis facility opened on 2 January 2009 at the site of the demolished Tennyson Power Station. Since January 2009 the Queensland Tennis Centre has been the host centre for combined men and women's international tennis tournament entitled the Brisbane International, a combination of the former Next Generation Adelaide International event in Adelaide and the Mondial Gold Coast Women's championships. Construction It was designed by internationally recognised stadium designers HOK Sport Venue Event and The Mirvac Group's in-house architectural practice, HPA Pty Ltd and constructed by Mirvac as part of the Tennyson Riverside development. The main court was designed to incorporate a Polytetrafluoroethylene, PTFE glass fibre fabric structure, fabric roof. This tensile membrane structur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tennyson Tennis Centre's Pat Rafter Arena
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892) was an English poet. He was the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, Poet Laureate during much of Queen Victoria's reign. In 1829, Tennyson was awarded the Chancellor's Gold Medal at Cambridge for one of his first pieces, "Timbuktu". He published his first solo collection of poems, ''Poems, Chiefly Lyrical'', in 1830. "Claribel" and "Mariana (poem), Mariana", which remain some of Tennyson's most celebrated poems, were included in this volume. Although described by some critics as overly sentimental, his verse soon proved popular and brought Tennyson to the attention of well-known writers of the day, including Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Tennyson's early poetry, with its medievalism and powerful visual imagery, was a major influence on the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Tennyson also excelled at short lyrics, such as "Break, Break, Break", "The Charge of the Light Brigade (poem), The Charge of the Light Brigade", ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WTA Ranking
The WTA rankings are the Sports rating system, ratings defined by the Women's Tennis Association, introduced in November 1975. Iga Świątek is the current world No. 1. Ranking method The WTA rankings are based on a rolling 52-week, cumulative system. A player's ranking is determined by her results at a maximum of 16 tournaments for singles and 11 for doubles and points are awarded based on how far a player advances in a tournament. The basis for calculating a player's ranking are those tournaments that yield the highest ranking points during the rolling 52-week period with the condition that they must include points from the 4 Grand Slams, the 4 Premier Mandatory tournaments and the WTA Finals. In addition, for Top 20 players, their best two results at Premier 5 tournaments will also count. Up until 2016, the WTA also distributed ranking points, for singles players only, who competed at the Tennis at the Summer Olympics, Summer Olympics. However, this has since been disc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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